Tech Insights

<p>Simplistic protocols and models and language features can end up becoming <em>complexity multipliers</em> because the complexity is duplicated by each and every <em>user</em> of the model or protocol. They are also effort multipliers. Fortunately, one can sometimes solve this problem by wrapping or refactoring the protocol or model or language feature within a library to utilize it, thus capturing the Essential Complexity into the library and thus creating the feature/language/model that should have existed in the first place. </p>

<p>12 templates and checklists to get you started with usability testing. </p>

<p>Encourage emoji: Rather than cluttering up discussion threads with short messages such as “Got it” or “I agree,” encourage team members to use reaction emoji to get their point across. This will keep conversations streamlined and minimize the amount of scrolling that readers need to do. </p>

<p>Short explanation of the issues faced when trying to create a PostgreSQL index using the date() function and how to resolve it. </p>

<p>Detach components, just like you detach instances with this simple plugin. </p>

<p>Find all Instances of a Component used in your file. </p>

<p>Reading Your Own Writes: </p>

<p>Preventing Data Loss When Using Messaging: </p>

<p><em>Software Architecture Monday with Mark Richards</em> is a free bi-weekly software architecture lesson containing a short video about some aspect of software architecture. These lessons contain tips, techniques, and advice to help you in your journey from developer to architect. </p>

<p>A free, open-source app to quickly generate beautiful <em>screenshots</em>. Apply backgrounds, shadows, add rounded corners and more </p>

<p>PostgreSQL-based Task Queue for Python: </p>

<p>Code Colocation is King: keep the code that changes together close together </p>

<p>Team Topologies at Atlassian: How four fundamental topologies influence a DevOps transformation. </p>

<p>10 Unknown Security Pitfalls for Python: </p>

<p>Recruiting User Research Participants by Email </p>

<p>Inclusive Design </p>

<p>TMUX cheat sheet for who wants to try it out </p>

<p>Hacking Your Head: Managing Information Overload, by Jo Pearce </p>

<p>Prints the SQL for the named migration </p>

<p>Reliable Microservices Data Exchange With the Outbox Pattern: </p>

<p>How and Why We Do UX Research </p>

<p>Measuring product design impact — KPIs, NPS, etc. </p>

<p>DRF serializer to_representation is not called if field value is None </p>

<p>A collection of product frameworks to help you create better products </p>